When you hover the mouse over an item in the crafting menu and see its recipe, at the top (right below the item name) you have a label "Time:". This is the time it takes to craft it.

E.g., for iron gear wheel time is 0.5, for Science pack 1 time is 5, so one assembling machine for gears can feed 10 ...

If I understand your description, it works as designed. Unlike furnaces and assembling machines, mining drills don't create items into their inventory, rather they drop it at a designated spot. If you use an inserter to pick up directly from the drill it will pick up coal because that's the only ...

Coolthulhu wrote: This results in clunky behavior whenever items are completely used up (drag-placing poles, for example) and another item is picked up.

Isn't that what slot filters are for?

You should put signals not only before and after the station, but along the entire track.

With the way you have done it, the whole track outside the station is a single block which the trains will not share.

First: Hm, this is kind of fun.
Second: 7 AM? But I didn't even go to bed yet... (Well in reality it was more like 3 AM but you get the point).

Originally reported for 0.8.8, it's 0.9.2 now and this is still happening.

If you read through the original 0.8.8 thread about this isue you will notice that developer sad that they will look into this but they are not giving it a priority since it is not a gamebraking bug.
So please be a litle ...

Originally reported for 0.8.8, it's 0.9.2 now and this is still happening.

Sorry for thread-jacking, but I have a very similar question, also on the topic of balancing productivity modules.

I want to change the formula for computing power consumption for a machine that has modules that modify the consumption.

The current formula is:
PowerConsumption = BasePower * (1 ...

Well, the 2nd drill (the one feeding the box) will eventually have a full internal storage, so the 1st drill (the one fed by the inserter) will stop working. So unless you do a lot of maintenance you only get 50% efficiency.

Another thought I'd like to reiterate - The suggestion of multiplicative energy consumption penalty really balances out the dynamics. Let's say each prod module 3 triples (or quadruples, or whatever) energy consumption. So Normally you'd want to put maybe 1-2 modules, otherwise the extra consumption ...

Of course I can work around these quirks... I just don't see how this makes sense from either a realism or gameplay viewpoint, and it leaves me spending mental energy on things I find neither interesting nor entertaining.

I'll try to give an example.

Let's assume the following:

1. In your chain A->B->C->D->E->F->G->H->I->J, A takes 1 iron / second, and each machine takes 1 item of the previous machine per second. Until machiine J outputs a product at a rate of 1 per second.

2. Each prod module gives +10% prod, but ...

Garm wrote:while holding a new module in mouse shift-click old one to loot it into inventory, then right-click to insert new one.

If I understand you correctly, I need to go into the machine GUI to do that. I'm asking for a way to do it without going into the machine GUI.

I understand your objections, and I will try to explain why we did the limitation to intermediate products.
(Note that this applies for assembling machines, all other machines that support modules have no limitation, currently: Mining drill, Furnace, Lab)

The problem is, that we have two different ...

This is a thing that I (and possibly others) raised in the past, and I hope it will be solved already.

Each type of belt has a maximum theoretic throughput. According to sslik's measurements (some of which I've reproduced independently) these are roughly 12 items/s for basic belt, 20 for fast and ...

When I have a row of machines which I want to load with modules, I can just select the modules, run between the machines and ctrl-click each.

However, if the machines already have modules and I want to place better modules instead, I can't do that. I have to open the GUI of each machine and clear ...

We had a short talk about it, and this is the resolution we agreed on:

- Nerfed down productivity modules. Best module productivity bonus changed: 15->10, it has slow down factor, and its usage in assembling machines is limited to intermediate products.


Intermediate products for this purpose ...

Reported for quite a long time.
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1914
Seen this report, but I thought the title and description weren't clear enough. Also it focused on a different problem.

The thing is, those values (I think it applies to power as well) are not exact values ...

The production stats opened by pressing "P" seem to be way off. Hard to say what is wrong when almost nothing there is right.

e.g., when "5s" is chosen, it shows "59" on the copper plate icon, which I suppose should mean I've produced 59 copper plates in the past 5 seconds. It then shows 393.3/m ...

I support this, except for the hardcoded 50%.
If it gets in, it should be configurable; either per network or per accumulator, preferably both (accu settings first, defaults to network settings if none).
I want it to be configurable as much as the next guy, but adding a new interface element is ...